Hi all! i'm missing contacts when i go to phone contacts and type a certain contact, they won't appear however when i go to send a message and start typing the name the name appears. so what i'm trying to say is i have more contacts appearing when i message than when i'm trying to call them. This just happened when i updated iPhone 6 to iOS 9.2. So I need help to recover missing contacts. Thanks. It is weird that some contacts are missing after update to iOS 9.2. Contacts only appears when send messages to others. So have you ever encounter with the similar problem? What do you do to recover those missing contacts from iPhone 6 after iOS 9.2 update? Actually, it is not a complex problem to retrieve iPhone lost contacts so long as you follow methods introduced as below.
When it comes to missing contacts recovery problem, firstly, you should be aware that without the help from a third party software iFonebox, you just cannot get back those lost contacts from iPhone easily. Keep reading and you will learn more about this powerful iPhone contacts recovery.
As is known that iFonebox is a professional iOS data recovery software which is able to recover deleted or lost contacts from your iPhone or iPad directly. Plus, if you have an iTunes or iCloud backup for your missing contacts, iFonebox enables you to extract and restore lost contacts from backup selectively. What's more, one of the most attractive features of iFonebox is that you can transfer recovered contacts and notes back to your iPhone directly. So cool. Next, I will mainly focus on how to recover missing contacts from iPhone directly after update to iOS 9.
Undoubtedly, you should go to download and install iFonebox on your computer firstly. There are two versions available: Windows version and Mac version.

Steps to recover missing contacts from iPhone 6 after update to iOS 9.2Launch iFonebox. Choose Recover from iOS Device mode. Bear in mind to connect your iPhone 6 to the computer firstly with USB cable so as to scan and recover lost contacts back to it again. Click Start button to begin.
Scan contacts from iPhone. Click on Contacts item to start the scanning and analysis process.
Preview and choose missing contacts to recover.Now you have the chance to select those lost contacts and then, click Recover to Device button to retrieve all missing contacts back to iPhone 6.
Notes: if you have an iTunes or iCloud backup for your lost contacts, just choose Recover from iTunes Backup or Recover from iCloud Backup mode to retrieve missing contacts.
Now under the help from iFonebox, all missing contacts from iPhone 6 have been recovered. Other data like notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages, etc, from iPhone and iPad can also be retrieved with iFonebox.